Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All TimeFollowing an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp. |
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Page 80
... sand and yank ugly , brown , slimey leeches off their bodies and impale them on sticks and turn them inside out and plunge them into the hot burning mud . The next day the swimmers would pull the sticks out of the sand and gloat at the ...
... sand and yank ugly , brown , slimey leeches off their bodies and impale them on sticks and turn them inside out and plunge them into the hot burning mud . The next day the swimmers would pull the sticks out of the sand and gloat at the ...
Page 86
... sand dunes not far from the forest of banksia trees . The two younger sisters nodded . They could see the shallow valley of deep sand and the sand dunes on the left and began making their way towards them . " See that , " said Molly ...
... sand dunes not far from the forest of banksia trees . The two younger sisters nodded . They could see the shallow valley of deep sand and the sand dunes on the left and began making their way towards them . " See that , " said Molly ...
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... sand dgingi , fat or dripping dgudu , older sister dgundu , dingo or dog durn - durns , young girl or adolescent gengas , spirit of the ancestors gilla , rainbow snake girdi girdi , hill kangaroo gulja , a mixture of tobacco and ashes ...
... sand dgingi , fat or dripping dgudu , older sister dgundu , dingo or dog durn - durns , young girl or adolescent gengas , spirit of the ancestors gilla , rainbow snake girdi girdi , hill kangaroo gulja , a mixture of tobacco and ashes ...
Contents
The First Military Post | 1 |
The Swan River Colony | 8 |
The Decline of Aboriginal Society | 13 |
Copyright | |
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